Sadewa
Item
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Title
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Sadewa
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Creator
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Unidentified artist
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Subject
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Shadow puppet
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Date
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possibly 19th century
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Culture
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Javanese
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Medium
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Buffalo leather; buffalo horn; pigments
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Description
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Nakula and Sadewa are the twins and the last brothers of the Pandawa. As twins, Nakula and Sadewa have the same physical characteristics and have similar iconographical representations for their clothes, attributes, and so on. However, each of them has a distinct mark on their foreheads. Nakula has two small red curve marks, while Sadewa has three marks.
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Provenance
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Gift of Claire Holt and Benedict R.O'G. Anderson
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Rights
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Collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Coll. no. 81.033.014
Sadewa